History Comicbook / Powers

** Retro Girl (GoldenAge Comicbook/{{Supergirl}})
** Red Hawk and Wing (Franchise/{{Batman}} and Comicbook/{{Robin}})

* HeroesWantRedheads: Olympia's affairs have red hair, while his wife is blonde. He too is blond. Each of them had different reactions to the news of his death.

%%* AnyoneCanDie: Causes genuine drama.

-->'''Pilgrim:''' That Sgt. Simone made my uterus clench."

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Between lesbian superheroine Crystal and the sexually frustrated Queen Noir. Crystal mentions she had a sex dream about Noir, Noir nearly acquiesces, then she departs. Upon arriving home, Noir [[ADateWithRosiePalms fantasizes about having sex with Crystal]]. Gloriously averted with Christian and Deena, who are PlatonicLifePartners.

* BareYourMidriff: Deena, who wears "these little belly shirts."

* StockSuperpowers: Retro Girl's power set.

** Triphammer (IronMan)

* BadassNormal: Christian and Deena in spades. [[spoiler: Until Christian gets his powers back by way of Millinium Corps and Deena gets them by Bug.]]

* BerserkButton: For Christian, it's disrespecting the memories of Retro Girl(the dead one) or Zora. For Deena, it's when people interfere with their cases.

* TheFogOfAges: Walker and the rest of his group(such as Retro Girl, Zora and Billy Mace) can't fully recall most of their past lives.

* ImportantHaircut: In a flashback. Officer Deena Pilgrim had longer hair(about shoulder-length) her first day on the job, but in a tussle with a power, he grabbed her by the hair and swung her around, pulling enough strands out to make her scalp bleed. She cut it short soon thereafter.

* NoPeriodsPeriod: Averted; the very first time the coroner meets Deena, he and his assistant assume her attitude is because she's "O.T.R."(on the rag), and when Deena is later infected with the powers virus, she passes off a momentary surge as cramps.

* SamuraiPonytail: Janis(the murdered Retro Girl) favored this style, and at least two of her previous incarnations did as well. [[spoiler: Calista]] avoids it and goes with Girlish Pigtails instead.

* {{Reincarnation}}: How Retro Girl has existed throughout time; her powers and some of her memories pass to a new person upon the previous ones death.

* TheChosenMany: The Millennium Corps (the in-universe ShoutOut to GreenLantern). [[spoiler:Walker becomes the newest one of them while investigating the death of the most recent one.]]

* TheCameo: Back when it started at Image, many indie comics characters like ComicBook/SavageDragon, ComicBook/{{Madman}} and the Atomics, ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}, and Creator/JoeQuesada & Jimmy Palmiotti's ComicBook/{{Ash}} made cameos. A Powers short story published in an Oni Press special even revolved around finding out who killed Madman, and featured appearances by everyone from ''Mage'' to ''ComicBook/{{Kabuki}}'' to ''[[ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius Barry Ween]]'' before revealing that the culprit was none other than [[spoiler: a living planet that bore absolutely no resemble to [[Creator/JohnByrne a certain comics creator]].]]

* TheCameo: Back when it started at Image, many indie comics characters like ComicBook/SavageDragon, ComicBook/{{Madman}} and the Atomics, ComicBook/{{Shadowhawk}}, and JoeQuesada & Jimmy Palmiotti's ComicBook/{{Ash}} made cameos. A Powers short story published in an Oni Press special even revolved around finding out who killed Madman, and featured appearances by everyone from ''Mage'' to ''ComicBook/{{Kabuki}}'' to ''[[ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfBarryWeenBoyGenius Barry Ween]]'' before revealing that the culprit was none other than [[spoiler: a living planet that bore absolutely no resemble to [[Creator/JohnByrne a certain comics creator]].]]

** Retro Girl (GoldenAge {{Supergirl}})

A minor DeconstructorFleet taken to [[TheAgesOfSuperHeroComics Super Hero Comics]], ''Powers'' looks at the world of superpowered crime, life and death through the eyes of two [[{{Muggles}} non-powered]] detectives who investigate crimes committed by and related to superheroes and villains. These investigations frequently lead Detectives Christian Walker, [[note]] Who at one time was a powerful superhero before losing his powers prior to the start of the comics. [[/note]] and Deena Pilgrim, [[note]] A spunky female partner with very serious anger and control issues [[/notes]] into the seedier side of superpowered life, sex, messed up group dynamics and relationships, and the culture that surrounds it, including everything from trashy tabloids obsessed with the Powers to the bureaucratic nightmare that lies at the heart of the multiple government agencies they often have to deal with.

A minor DeconstructorFleet taken to [[TheAgesOfSuperHeroComics Super Hero Comics]], ''Powers'' looks at the world of superpowered crime, life and death through the eyes of two [[{{Muggles}} non-powered]] detectives who investigate crimes committed by and related to superheroes and villains. These investigations frequently lead Detectives Christian Walker, (who at one time was a powerful superhero before losing his powers prior to the start of the comics) and Deena Pilgrim, (a spunky female partner with very serious anger and control issues) into the seedier side of superpowered life, sex, messed up group dynamics and relationships, and the culture that surrounds it, including everything from trashy tabloids obsessed with the Powers to the bureaucratic nightmare that lies at the heart of the multiple government agencies they often have to deal with.

A TV adaptation starring Creator/SharltoCopley (''Film/{{District 9}}'', ''Film/{{Elysium}}'', ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'') as Christian, Susan Heyward (''Series/TheFollowing'') as Deena, Creator/MichelleForbes (''Series/TheKilling'') as Retro Girl, Creator/NoahTaylor (''Series/GameOfThrones'') as Johnny Royalle and Creator/EddieIzzard as Wolfe was made by the [=PlayStation Network=] in 2015. Season 2 began airing May 31, 2016.

A TV adaptation starring Creator/SharltoCopley (''Film/{{District 9}}'', ''Film/{{Elysium}}'', ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'') as Christian, Susan Heyward (''Series/TheFollowing'') as Deena, Creator/MichelleForbes (''Series/TheKilling'') as Retro Girl, Creator/NoahTaylor (''Series/GameOfThrones'') as Johnny Royalle and Creator/EddieIzzard as Wolfe was made by the [=PlayStation Network=] in 2015. A second season has been ordered and is set to begin May 31, 2016.

A TV adaptation starring Creator/SharltoCopley (''Film/{{District 9}}'', ''Film/{{Elysium}}'', ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'') as Christian, Susan Heyward (''Series/TheFollowing'') as Deena, Creator/MichelleForbes (''Series/TheKilling'') as Retro Girl, Creator/NoahTaylor (''Series/GameOfThrones'') as Johnny Royalle and Creator/EddieIzzard as Wolfe has been ordered by the [=PlayStation Network=], and began airing in March 2015.

* ActionGirl: Normal, Deena; [[spoiler: superhuman, Calista after becoming Retro Girl.]]

* AnyoneCanDie: Causes genuine drama.

* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Averted.

* BlackComedy: They're homicide detectives, it's pretty much a given.

* EvilPowerVacuum

* GoodCopBadCop
* GreenRocks: One of the reasons the muggle cops have any chance against villains is because of the technology that cancels out powers. ([[{{MST 3 K Mantra}} Don't think too hard about how that would work]]).

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:By the time of the most recent volume, a big chunk of the secondary cast is gone or missing in action]].

* PowerNullifier: See GreenRocks above. Rinse, repeat.

---> '''Walker:''' No.
---> [[spoiler:'''Satan:''']] No, what?
---> '''Walker:''' No. I don't believe anything you're saying. I don't think you are who you aren't saying you are. And fuck you.

* [[PurelyAestheticGlasses Purely Aesthetic Goggles]]: Both modern-age Retro Girl's wear these when in costume, [[spoiler: though in Calista's case, they seem to be more for disguise]].
* [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld Really Three MILLION years old]]: [[spoiler:Walker, and a number of other superheores. Walker and Wolf appear to have gotten the raw end of the deal on this one; it's heavily implied that they were truly immortal and alive for most of that time, while the others were mainly [[{{Reincarnation}} reincarnates]].]]

* StockSuperpowers

* TabloidMelodrama: a ''constant'' theme is about the attention/obsession everything from trashy tabloids to two-bit political commentators would have for superpowered figures, and how that works to screw over their normal lives.

* TheStoic: Walker.

* [[WhamEpisode Wham Issue]]: After years of dancing around it, the end of the ''25 Coolest Dead Superheroes of All Time'' arc revealed that Deena [[spoiler: actually '''did''' kill Johnny Royale]].

A TV adaptation starring Creator/SharltoCopley (''Film/{{District 9}}'', ''Film/{{Elysium}}'', ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'') as Christian, Susan Heyward (''Series/TheFollowing'') as Deena, Creator/MichelleForbes (''Series/TheKilling'') as Retro Girl, Creator/NoahTaylor (''Series/GameOfThrones'') as Johnny Royalle and Creator/EddieIzzard as Wolfe has been ordered by the [=PlayStation Network=], and will begin airing in March 2015.

* BewareTheSuperman: Most of the time, this isn't too big a problem, but [[spoiler: Supershock, the Superman-analogue]], goes off the deep end and nearly causes a [[Comicbook/{{Irredeemable}} Plutonian]] or [[{{Miracleman}} Kid Miracleman]]-like world disaster. He "solves" the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by annihilating the entire area, melts the Pope and does a number of other deeds that they can't directly attribute to him because he can only be observed if he wants to be.

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[[caption-width:323:To protect and serve... in a world of capes.]]

* BewareTheSuperman: Most of the time, this isn't too big a problem, but [[spoiler: Supershock, the Superman-analogue]], goes off the deep end and nearly causes a [[{{Incorruptible}} Plutonian]] or [[{{Miracleman}} Kid Miracleman]]-like world disaster. He "solves" the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by annihilating the entire area, melts the Pope and does a number of other deeds that they can't directly attribute to him because he can only be observed if he wants to be.

A TV adaptation starring Sharlto Copley (''Film/{{District 9}}'', ''Film/{{Elysium}}'', ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'') as Christian, Susan Heyward (''Series/TheFollowing'') as Deena, Michelle Forbes (''Series/TheKilling'') as Retro Girl, and EddieIzzard as Wolfe has been ordered by the [=PlayStation Network=], and will begin airing in March 2015.